View from Seed
AUGUST 17, 2021
A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. We’ll probably do a few of these over the next few months as we make our way back around the country and folks get more comfortable meeting in larger groups in person. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.
Up and Running
AUGUST 19, 2021
As more remote teams transition to a hybrid structure, one question at the forefront of many business leaders’ minds is how to maintain high productivity levels both at home and in the office. 55 percent of employees with flexible work options are high performers, compared to just 36 percent of onsite nine-to-five employees, according to a Gartner report.
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The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2021
You want to grow your business, but marketing your freelance business can be a struggle. If people don’t know you exist, then you won’t become successful. So, how do you gain exposure and get your name out there? There are many digital marketing tools that help to build your business and land your dream clients. How do you know which ones will work best for you?
Board Effect
AUGUST 18, 2021
Nonprofit boards place a heavy focus on what motivates and attracts donors, and donor stewardship relations and best practices will ensure that donors have enough trust in your organization to make giving a standard practice. If donors make gifts to your nonprofit once, they’re bound to do it again. If they stop giving at any point, there’s generally a good reason behind it.
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in
View from Seed
AUGUST 17, 2021
A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. We’ll probably do a few of these over the next few months as we make our way back around the country and folks get more comfortable meeting in larger groups in person. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.
Up and Running
AUGUST 16, 2021
Earning the first sale from a customer is always considered the hardest. Depending on your domain, product, and pricing, it can take anywhere from days to months to convince someone to make a purchase. In highly competitive retail industries where sales are rather quick and impulsive, many businesses struggle to gain traction with new customers. However, it’s not just about gaining new customers but continuing to retain them.
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 18, 2021
How AI Is Impacting The Marketing Industry written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Agency Spark Podcast with Araks Nalbandyan. The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today.
View from Seed
AUGUST 17, 2021
A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. We’ll probably do a few of these over the next few months as we make our way back around the country and folks get more comfortable meeting in larger groups in person. Part of the reason to do this was just to reconnect after a long time apart.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 16, 2021
Every dedicated business professional I know can’t find enough hours in a day to do their best work, and yet they often find themselves saying yes to new requests from the people around them. In some cases it may be fear of retribution by the boss, but more often they just hate to disappoint others, and end up instead with high stress and low credibility in a crisis to deliver.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
AUGUST 17, 2021
There is no denying that the power of technology has taken over business and commerce. Now, businesses must adapt to meet the demands of these upcoming trends by reassessing their departments and operations. Payroll is an area that most managers are wary to innovate. This is due to the sensitive nature of salaries and wages. However, today we will be discussing how and giving you a reason as to why you should be innovating change in your payroll department.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 17, 2021
Navigating the job market during the pandemic can be challenging for job seekers, but finding the right hybrid environment pays dividends. Always be mindful of scams veiled in supposed opportunity. The post Work-From-Home Scams And The Future Of The Hybrid Workplace appeared first on Young Upstarts.
deal architect
AUGUST 17, 2021
Over my career I have seen tech industry leadership change every decade or so. Analysts like to come up with acronyms for the leaders and I have seen them evolve from BUNCH to JBOPS to FAANG. I myself coined the.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 18, 2021
The message I hear publicly from most entrepreneurs is that you have to think outside the box and take big risks to ever beat the odds and be among the less than ten percent that experience real success. But privately, as a mentor to many entrepreneurs, I see mindsets and attributes that may be equally critical to success, but are not readily admitted, for fear of being too wacky.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
AUGUST 17, 2021
Do what you do best and outsource the rest for efficient results. It is needless to say that entrepreneurs play multiple roles to ensure the sustainability of their businesses in the industry. But a wise business owner prioritizes smart work over hard work. See, there are times when you might not be able to regulate each and every department in your organization.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 19, 2021
Content management has a considerable influence on achieving a great customer experience. Here are four ways for improving content management. The post 4 Ways to Improve Content Management and Improve Customer Experience appeared first on Young Upstarts.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 14, 2021
What’s the most important thing your business can do to ensure success? The answer is to build a company website that attracts a healthy flow of visitors, provides useful and relevant content, and helps to build brand awareness. It doesn’t matter how big or small your company is or what industry, in today’s technology-driven landscape, a website is an absolute must.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 14, 2021
With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. They expect you to be there, to know their history as a customer, and to treat them with priority and respect. They tell their friends and the world everything, and a bad experience can kill your business.
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2021
Luckily, protecting your data abroad doesn’t require buckets of money and loads of time, but it’s important to go about it deliberately.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 19, 2021
Influence, inspiration, and intention. They are the three necessary factors you must activate inside yourself first before you’ll ever be able to activate it in others, argues Christan Hiscock. The post Putting Your Vision Into Action: The Power Of Influence, Inspiration, And Intention appeared first on Young Upstarts.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2021
2020 and 2021 have been incredibly difficult years for small businesses as the covid-19 pandemic has wreaked economic havoc worldwide. Many small businesses have had to close as a result and those that haven’t find themselves financially struggling. You would struggle to find any small business that hasn’t faced (and continues to face) pandemic financial losses and issues due to the unforeseen pandemic.
Up and Running
AUGUST 17, 2021
A business plan is an essential part of any company. It serves as the launch pad where you can flesh out your vision and mission statements, house enterprising ideas, and lay the plans for short- and long-term growth. While the business plan creation process is often focused on details, the larger messaging of your plan is also worth considering. Here are a few tips and suggestions to keep in mind to ensure that you write your business plan with a strong, clear message throughout. 1.
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2021
The next time you feel like you want to throw your computer out the window after checking team emails, ask yourself these three questions.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 18, 2021
There’s no time for breaks when starting a business, and you don’t have much room for mistakes either. Here are 4 things to look out for. The post 4 Things You Shouldn’t Overlook When Starting Your Business appeared first on Young Upstarts.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 14, 2021
A heatmap is used in carrying data analysis and presentations. This technology around visualization is key in communication. Visualizing data has a great impact on people as our brains tend to process that data faster and it has a long-lasting impression. Heatmaps use color variation to represent data variation over a given space. Different colors are used to outline various information, an example is looking at a heatmap of the ocean, red would indicate warmer water while the cool areas are rep
SiliconHills
AUGUST 20, 2021
By LAURA LOREK, publisher of Silicon Hills News It’s a difficult landscape for employers and employees to traverse right now in Austin and throughout Texas as Covid 19 and its Delta variant spreads rapidly leading to a surge in infections. The loss of life and illnesses also have a profound effect on Texas’ economy. The […].
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 19, 2021
We've compiled a vetted short list of 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy groups with a proven track record for assisting in refugee crises.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 17, 2021
Large-scale businesses need robust, efficient tools to facilitate business operations. Here are some business tools you'll need. The post 10 Essential Tools For Large Scale Businesses appeared first on Young Upstarts.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2021
Is your startup business currently banging on that proverbial glass ceiling? If you want to smash through this barrier in a timely and effective manner, you must now be looking for ways to expand beyond your current confines and drive startup growth. In order to achieve great things in your niche sector, you need to push the boundaries and step outside of your comfort zone.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 17, 2021
In Austin, 109 companies made the Inc. 5000 2021 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Overall, the Austin companies on the list had a 183 percent median growth rate, $3.9 billion in total revenue, and added 8,312 jobs. The list includes 12 newly founded companies and 62 repeat honorees. Empowering a Billion […].
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2021
Which investment is right for you in terms of downside protection, upside opportunity, inflation hedging and overall utility?
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 15, 2021
Many entrepreneurs have recently utilized mobile apps for marketing purposes. Read our blog to learn how this technology can help you optimize leads. The post How A Mobile App Can Help Optimize Leads appeared first on Young Upstarts.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2021
The challenge in a hybrid work environment lies in ensuring that you can retain productivity despite having off-site teams. While there are many ways to mitigate this , one of the easiest ways to do so is through using available technologies that are designed to manage teams located in different places and occupying different roles. The following are the six productivity tools that allow you to run your hybrid work environment as if everyone in your team is sitting at the same desk: Video confer
Up and Running
AUGUST 18, 2021
Generating a business idea can be tricky, the worst thing an entrepreneur can do is assume a problem exists and build a business based on this assumption. The advice many entrepreneurs are given is to get out of the building. If applied metaphorically it’s great advice (if not it can be a mess, why would your ideal customer be walking around the streets?).
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 18, 2021
Here's a look at three fun and engaging ways to take breaks that boost your productivity and keep your mind sharp.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 16, 2021
There is a plethora of entry-level jobs available that are both financially profitable and thoroughly enjoyable. Here are some of them. The post Top 4 Entry-Level Jobs That Are Rewarding, Profitable And Enjoyable appeared first on Young Upstarts.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 18, 2021
These days, it is imperative for businesses to have an active presence on the web. After all, as hundreds of businesses have joined the bandwagon of the digital world, it is crucial for them to have effective websites for a higher return on investment. Creating a business website isn’t tough but having an effective business website is important.
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